Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread Curt Raymond
we pump theirs. Thats cool, lets pump theirs. When its all gone we can get ours. -Curt Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:29:17 -0400 From: "LarryT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread LarryT
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Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread LarryT
e - From: "Curt Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Diesel List" Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault You just made my case. Anything less than 5 years of oil isn't squat. We'll burn

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread OK Don
Wrong - the price of oil is only now starting to rise to the pain point (it's not there yet, it's just to the bitching point), before we'll get serious about finding/building serious alternatives. Yes - we need to do some serious work on the nuclear waste problem, then get those nuke plants cranki

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread Curt Raymond
You just made my case. Anything less than 5 years of oil isn't squat. We'll burn it all in a couple years and then what have we got? Less than nothing... -Curt Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:33:02 -0400 From: "LarryT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread LarryT
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Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

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Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread Curt Raymond
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";     reply-type=original Donald wrote <>

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread Jim Cathey
> BUT! The citizens of Va *should* decide what happens in her > coastal > waters - not representatives from other states.. So long as VA's actions don't impinge upon NC, for example. But the possibility of a nice drifting oil slick carries the question right into Federal jurisdiction, and pr

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-28 Thread LarryT
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Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-26 Thread Curt Raymond
8, Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Allan Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Mercedes Discussion List" Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 10:34 PM Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-26 Thread Gary Hurst
it is kind of odd that we still occupy those countries after all these years On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donald Snook wrote: > > > How many times does the house need to have another vote to establish a > > withdrawal date for Iraq when each time it

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread Allan Streib
Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been thinking about that a lot lately. It seems like the only > reason to keep our bases in those places is so we can play "World's > policeman" which is a role we're not particularly good at OTOH we're better at it than anyone else. Allan -- 1983

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-25 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:04:07 -0500 Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "information barriers" were NOT put in place by Clinton Au contraire, there were indeed information barriers put in place by Clinton. And don't get me started on what that woman he put in charge of the Deparement

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread Bill R
Of Curt Raymond Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:09 PM To: Diesel List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault I've been thinking about that a lot lately. It seems like the only reason to keep our bases in those places is so we can play "World's p

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread Curt Raymond
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:54:39 -0400 From: Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault To: Mercedes Discussion List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Donald Snook wrote: &g

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread Bill R
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald Snook Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:44 PM To: 'mercedes@okiebenz.com' Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault Bill R. wrote: "I had an 'interesting'

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread John Robbins
Donald Snook wrote: > In 1998, he said that ANWAR would be off-limits and he justified his > decision by saying that it would take 8 years to get the oil out of > the ground and into the stream of commerce. I don't know about you, > but I sure do wish that 8 years ago, we had done that. Because it

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread Mitch Haley
Donald Snook wrote: > How many times does the house need to have another vote to establish a > withdrawal date for Iraq when each time it failed. I'm wondering when they will establish a withdrawal date for Germany, Japan, and Korea. Mitch. ___ http://www

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread Donald Snook
Bill R. wrote: "I had an 'interesting' conversation with a conservative a couple of months ago. He was absolutely convinced that none of the current problems have anything to do with Bush, but were all actually the fault of Clinton." Here is another conservative offering another perspective.

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home - all Clinton's fault

2008-06-25 Thread Bill R
out 20 years.] BillR -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Frederick Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:06 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home That problem has been around for at least 40 years that I kno

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-24 Thread Peter Frederick
That problem has been around for at least 40 years that I know of personally by reading the news, and I'd bet it goes back much longer than that. Why do people blame everything on Clinton? Peter On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:01 AM, John Robbins wrote: > Craig McCluskey wrote: >> But the Republican

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-24 Thread Mitch Haley
John Robbins wrote: > I wasn't around to know anything about this, but could that be explained > by fighting amongst the CIA, FBI, etc? Sometimes it seems like getting a better appropriation is more important than doing their jobs, doesn't it? The whole point of the Waco slaughter was to have a

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-24 Thread John Robbins
Craig McCluskey wrote: > But the Republican presidents would not have errected barriers to > information transfer between the CIA and the FBI, among other things. I wasn't around to know anything about this, but could that be explained by fighting amongst the CIA, FBI, etc? John __

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Mitch Haley
Craig McCluskey wrote: > You mean that Reid fellow in Congress? I don't recall hearing about the Clinton Department of Defense going after soldiers demanding they repay their enlistment bonuses because they became crippled on duty and couldn't serve their full terms. _

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Peter Frederick
The current Republican president ignored what information did get through, especially the part about airplanes flown into buildings. Read Dick Clark's book, and he's not the only source. There are no surprises in the gang of terrorists we raised in Afganistan, we've known who they were fo

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:53 -0400 Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as ability to protect our own sovereign soil is concerned, I > believe the USA military is currently in the worst shape it's been in > for decades. Can't blame Clinton for that either. Mr "You support our > troops w

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:38:45 -0400 Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donald Snook wrote: > > I forgot to add, Mr. Clinton preferred terrorism, aka killing > > Americans in the WTC on Sept 11, > 2001, to actually funding the military and counter terrorists branches > of the CIA. > > >

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Peter Frederick
I think the official term is "blowback". We are reaping quite a bit of the harvest we sowed during the "cold war" -- much of which was to benefit the makers of military equipment. I won't contiue, it's been a good day and I don't want to mess it up. Peter On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Mitch Ha

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Mitch Haley
Donald Snook wrote: > I agree with you that it would have been damn near impossible to prevent the > actual acts on September 11th once the plan was in action. But, bin Laden was > getting more and more bold in his plans and Clinton didn't do enough to stop > him. That is what happens when you c

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Donald Snook
Mitch wrote: "If you think any of the Repugnant party presidents of the last 30 years could have prevented those plane crashes, you're nuts enough to support the so-called Patriot Act." I agree with you that it would have been damn near impossible to prevent the actual acts on September 11th on

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread John Robbins
Donald Snook wrote: > That is a dumb argument, Mitch. Because the congress passed drug > money seizure laws and most other states followed you blame President > Reagan? > > How about the 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center? Clinton was > president. He was cutting defense spending dramaticall

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Mitch Haley
Donald Snook wrote: > I forgot to add, Mr. Clinton preferred terrorism, aka killing Americans in the WTC on Sept 11, 2001, to actually funding the military and counter terrorists branches of the CIA. The asset theft ring known as the DEA really got going in the Reagan era, but Clinton expan

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Donald Snook
"I forgot to add, Mr Reagan preferred outright theft of private property, aka forfeiture, to taxation. http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson9.html"; That is a dumb argument, Mitch. Because the congress passed drug money seizure laws and most other states followed you blame President Reag

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Mitch Haley
Mitch Haley wrote: > Donald Snook wrote: >> 'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: >> If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops >> moving, subsidize it.' > > I don't know if it was original to him, but Ronald Reagan said that. I

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Mitch Haley
Donald Snook wrote: > > 'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: > If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, > subsidize it.' I don't know if it was original to him, but Ronald Reagan said that. ___

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Donald Snook
Mitch wrote: "Government is a necessary evil. The more it sticks its nose where it is not necessary for it to be involved, the more evil it becomes. The problem is coming to an agreement over just what is a necessary gov't function." I think it is time for some wisdom from someone who has offere

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Jim Cathey
> Government is a necessary evil. The more it sticks its nose where it > is not necessary for it to be involved, the more evil it becomes. The > problem is coming to an agreement over just what is a necessary gov't > function. If more people would actually think about the fact that any government

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-23 Thread Mitch Haley
Peter Frederick wrote: > Government is NOT evil, it's what makes the difference between > civilization and plain chaos. Government is a necessary evil. The more it sticks its nose where it is not necessary for it to be involved, the more evil it becomes. The problem is coming to an agreement ov

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-22 Thread Peter Frederick
Or, in fact, the suburbs of any major city in the US. LA in particular had a superb transit system until GM bought it in the early 50's. Gone in a few years, replaced with endless concrete. Transit systems won't make money when people can also drive, as it both lowers ridership and cause

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-22 Thread Steve Bailey
List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home Well, there is a solution (actually, the same one I've been suggesting for 30 years or more) Stop building roads, of any kind, at once. Spend the highway trust fund money on de-suburbanization -- for an example, take a look at any

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-22 Thread Peter Frederick
Frederick > Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 8:50 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home > > Well, there is a solution (actually, the same one I've been > suggesting for 30 years or more) > > Stop building roads, of any kin

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-22 Thread Bill R
] Another reason to stay home So the government should step in and solve all our problems? Peter Frederick wrote: > Well, there is a solution (actually, the same one I've been > suggesting for 30 years or more) > > Stop building roads, of any kind, at once. Spend the highw

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-22 Thread Bill R
other reason to stay home Well, there is a solution (actually, the same one I've been suggesting for 30 years or more) Stop building roads, of any kind, at once. Spend the highway trust fund money on de-suburbanization -- for an example, take a look at any community near a large

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...or take a cruise

2008-06-22 Thread Curt Raymond
n, 6/22/08, Bill R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Bill R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...or take a cruise To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "'Mercedes Discussion List'" Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008, 8:04 AM If you are going to the right spot,

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...or take a cruise

2008-06-22 Thread Bill R
List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home... Can anyone explain the rationale behind this one? Why would United want me to fly LESS? I don't understand this one at all... Is it just to make me upgrade to a flight class that doesn't have a restriction? Somehow I think that Uni

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-22 Thread Gary Hurst
i don't fly anymore. even if you buy a first class ticket, airlines still treat you like garbage and i'm more than a little tired of playing the "homeland security" fraud. what has been most remarkable to me is that the masses have been so pacified and stupified that they just happily go along wi

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-22 Thread Jeff Zedic
> > That is the reason we HAVE a government. > > > I'm sure you get a strong difference of opinion about that with some > people on the list. This is where I beg to differ. The purpose of the government is to get things done for the common good. Your gov't built the interstate system, remember?

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Jim Cathey
Dear Airline Industry, I am sick of being treated either like a criminal, or like a fool, or both. I do not feel safer, I do not feel better served, I do not feel like giving you any money. Screw you. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see off

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-21 Thread Gary Hurst
are you going to tell us also that the police are a think blue line separating peace from anarchy? there are not many problems with our society that do not have government as the root cause. On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is the reason we HAVE

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-21 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:56:30 -0500 Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:44:11 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So the government should step in and solve all our problems? > > That is the reason we HAVE a government. I'm sure you get a

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-21 Thread Peter Frederick
That is the reason we HAVE a government. We elect them, we should hold their feet to the fire and get some things fixed for US, not just the rich people who fund their election campaigns. Government is NOT evil, it's what makes the difference between civilization and plain chaos. Peter _

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Archer
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:52:26 -0400 "Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wonder if they'll get around to "stand-up" seating? >> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/25seats.html > > Correction: May 4, 2006 > A front-page article on April 25 about seating options that airlines are > consid

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-21 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
So the government should step in and solve all our problems? Peter Frederick wrote: > Well, there is a solution (actually, the same one I've been > suggesting for 30 years or more) > > Stop building roads, of any kind, at once. Spend the highway trust > fund money on de-suburbanization -

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-21 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
I think many people are just too stupid to care. They are worried more about things like getting more wind power, or solar power, or buying hybrids than addressing the real problem. Wilton Strickland wrote: > A nother sign of the SERIOUS trouble we're ALL in, and nobody seems to care. > > Wilt

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Craig McCluskey
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:52:26 -0400 "Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wonder if they'll get around to "stand-up" seating? > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/25seats.html Correction: May 4, 2006 A front-page article on April 25 about seating options that airlines are considering to a

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Curt Raymond
They're going the way, they should offer beds not seats... Rack about 4 high. I'd put up with a navy style rack to lie in during a 5 hour flight... -Curt --- On Sat, 6/21/08, Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another rea

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Archer
Wonder if they'll get around to "stand-up" seating? http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/25seats.html Gerry - From: "Curt Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An airline needs to go out of business... Theres too much drive to push > prices down and too many idio

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-21 Thread Peter Frederick
Well, there is a solution (actually, the same one I've been suggesting for 30 years or more) Stop building roads, of any kind, at once. Spend the highway trust fund money on de-suburbanization -- for an example, take a look at any community near a large city built before 1948 -- a main

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Curt Raymond
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mercedes Discussion List" Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 8:22 PM The airlines, who have NEVER made money, even with the massive subsidies they get, are bleeding so badly they have to restrict flights t

[MBZ] Another reason to stay home

2008-06-21 Thread Wilton Strickland
A nother sign of the SERIOUS trouble we're ALL in, and nobody seems to care. Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Peter Frederick
The airlines, who have NEVER made money, even with the massive subsidies they get, are bleeding so badly they have to restrict flights to reduce the amount of fuel they use. The idea is to stabilize return trips and reduce the number of one- way trips to maximize the number of passengers on e

Re: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread Curt Raymond
y's money... -Curt Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:48:38 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MBZ] Another reason to stay home... To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" NEW YORK -- United Airlines said Friday it will sta

[MBZ] Another reason to stay home...

2008-06-21 Thread RELNGSON
NEW YORK -- United Airlines said Friday it will start requiring minimum stays for nearly all domestic coach seats beginning in October. It also is raising its cheapest fares by as much as $90 one-way. The second-largest U.S. carrier said the moves are among a number of changes, including flight